Sarah Whitcher's Story
10 best books like Sarah Whitcher's Story (Elizabeth Yates): The Thanksgiving Story, Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed by his Horse, Misty of Chincoteague, Across Five Aprils, Farmer Boy, The Courage of Sarah Noble, The Matchlock Gun, Toliver's Secret, Swift Rivers, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689710534 |
Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things...
| Author | Robert Lawson |
| ISBN | 0316517291 |
Misty of Chincoteague
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 1416927832 |
Across Five Aprils
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| ISBN | 0425182789 |
I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way...
Farmer Boy
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| ISBN | 0060885386 |
Much of Laura's childhood was spent in near-starvation. While they always had something to eat, it was never enough for the family to be satisfied.
Thus when Laura wrote about Almanzo (her future husband)'s childhood, she focused on the most idyllic parts and what...
The Courage of Sarah Noble
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689715404 |
In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family. “Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble,” her mother had said, but Sarah...
The Matchlock Gun
| Author | Walter D. Edmonds |
| ISBN | 0698116801 |
In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and the Indians were constant threats to Edward and his family. When his father was called away to watch for a raid from the north, only Edward was left to protect Mama and little Trudy. His father had shown...
| Author | Esther Wood Brady |
| ISBN | 0679848045 |
Ten year-old Ellen Toliver is a meek and mild girl, who is often bullied by another girl named Dicey. Grandfather encourages Ellen to stand up for herself and talk back to Dicey, but Mother...
| Author | Cornelia Meigs |
| ISBN | 0802777031 |
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689716044 |
| Author | Douglas W. Gorsline |
| ISBN | 0394837029 |
Author: Marie and Douglas Gorsline
Illustrator: Marie and Douglas Gorsline
Type of Book (format and literary genre): Picture book/ Non-Fiction
Awards the book has received (national): None
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| Author | Elizabeth Levy |
| ISBN | 0590451596 |
--Why the Constitution is called a miracle.
--The first big argument.
--What was missing from the Constitution.
This books takes you behind the locked doors of Philadelphia's State House during the history-making...
| Author | Marguerite de Angeli |
| ISBN | 0836191242 |
Eli and his family have come to America from Germany. When they are in their new home, he must start school. Eli doesn't like school. He likes to make things and play in the woods and help...
| Author | Rhoda Blumberg |
| ISBN | 0060086254 |
| Author | Kenneth Thomasma |
| ISBN | 1880114003 |
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 0590434810 |
This book tells the story of a young curious Indian girl named Pocahontas. Pocahontas is the daughter of king Powhatan. She worked in the fields along with the other women and children. One day, the village received message of palefaces down by the river. She remembered stories that a wise...
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 0590440551 |
I've recently read a few other titles by Clyde...
| Author | Judith Berry Griffin |
| ISBN | 0698119568 |
| Author | Kenneth Thomasma |
| ISBN | 0801088844 |
Om-Kas-Toe is the retelling of stories passed down for generations through the Blackfeet tribe about the lives of Blackfeet children in the early 1700's....
| Author | Pam Conrad |
| ISBN | 0590462067 |
Based on a child who actually did travel on the Santa Maria with Columbus. Also clearly based on Columbus's shockingly stupid journal entries.I like reading this with my students while we are learning about Columbus and other European explorers. It...
| Author | Janet Benge |
| ISBN | 1576581616 |
| Author | Janet Benge |
| ISBN | 1576581454 |
Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar
| Author | Janet Benge |
| ISBN | 1576581489 |
In Grandma's Attic
| Author | Arleta Richardson |
| ISBN | 0781432685 |
Remember when you were a child—when all the world was new, and the smallest object a thing of wonder? Arleta Richardson remembers: the funny wearable wire contraption hidden in the dusty attic, the century-old schoolchild's slate that belonged to Grandma, an ancient...
The Sign of the Beaver
| Author | Elizabeth George Speare |
Matt and his father head to Maine territory to stake their claim, which involves declaring their land, building a home and planting crops. Once they've...